For The Journey Is Long, a forthcoming benefit tribute compilation dedicated to the late Gun Club frontman Jeffrey Lee Pierce, two of Pierce's better-known contemporaries have gotten together to…   Read Story »

Neko Case and Nick Cave have covered the Zombies' "She's Not There" for HBO's True Blood. KCRW DJ Gary Calamar, who serves as music supervisor for the vampire comedy (did you think it was a drama?),…   Read Story »

In a photo spread titled "Ballad Of A Thin Man" and subtitled "Godfathers Of Glam" and basically boiling down to "Someone Old, Something New," this Sunday's T Mag juxtaposed the exquisitely preserved…   Read Story »

James Lavelle's longtime project UNKLE teamed up with a few different vocalists for an upcoming five-song EP, Only The Lonely. Nick Cave handles the mic on the raucous opener "Money And Run." As with…   Read Story »

You can never have too many versions of "Heathen Child." Right? This one was stripped and sculpted by British DJ/producer and Lone Swordsman Andrew Weatherall. (Robert Fripp becomes a ghost.) We…   Read Story »

When I posted Grinderman's "Heathen Child" I mentioned that -- in addition to the album version -- there's a "Super" rendition of the song featuring an extended guitar solo form King Crimson and…   Read Story »

"Heathen Child" is the sweaty fourth single from Grinderman's forthcoming sophomore album, Grinderman 2. In addition to this bluesy thumb-sucking album version, you'll find a limited-edition…   Read Story »

Here's the promised "alternative" to the various Haiti relief charity singles released since that country was torn asunder. Even though the front page news has shifted on to how the womens' skiing…   Read Story »

Like I said the other day, in times like these we judge not the artists who are joining to make whatever difference they can in reconstructing Haiti via their art, we just celebrate that it's…   Read Story »

The little-documentary-that-could The Story Of Anvil, about the band that was like a "real life Spinal Tap" right down to having a drummer named Robb Reiner, stole everyone's heart this past year.…   Read Story »